This has to be one of the worst pvp season ive been stuck at

[Magegød-stormscale]

Title.

i playm Fire/frostfire
and Arcane Spellslinger

ive been lowkey sitting out of pvp because of how underwhelming my experience has been so far
i thought, well, they willl, SOONER OR LATER patch the game
yet, i still see no decent changes, both specs feel pretty awful to play, as of this moment
both specs
are heavily outmatched under almost EVERY scenario
1v1? outmatched
teamfight ? outmatched
defending a base ? outmatched
crowdcontrols ? outmatched

right now, everything a fire/arcane mage can do, other classes do flat out better.
im losing in single target dps, to an aoe class like boomie, whichj absolutely clown me in teamfight
his stealth is permanent, he is immune to polymorphs, and between cyclone/solar, knockback, he just domiantes me hardcore

now this is not a post about complaining about boomie, im just making an example
during dragonflight, arcane mage felt AWFUL in dealing dmg in pvp, but it was very resilient, something that right now i just don’t see, because every and i mean EVERY class solo me in 3 seconds, given that i don’t have trinket or iceblock. even if u prealter their dmg, 1 stun, u die from full hp.
if u play blink, u start losing even to some of the easier matchups just to maybe have a fair fight vs a rogue
ive been fishing, and farming golds for almsot 3 weeks, im sitting at 2 million because i keep spending it randomly, but i want to pvp, and every time i enter a bg, i feel terrible and pissed.

idk, wth am i supposed to do, every single class just dominates me so hard that i don’t feel like putting any effort in the game

I refuse to spec frost because i don’t like the playstyle, but im running out of options, i can only spam delves and pve so much, i want to pvp and pvp feels terrible.

[Superduck-ragnaros]

Im totally agree with you!
3/2 spec is almost the worst PvP spec in the game right now (maybe DH is even worse).
Arcane was way better in Dragonflight.
Some additional negative experience from me:

I think outside of burst, there is still zero pressure from Arcane Mage.
Sometimes Clearcasting barely procs, and it feels really underwhelming. If I don’t have any other mini CDs (like Magi, PoM, etc.), I just end up running around and spamming Arcane Barrage, because hardcasting Arcane Blast almost never possible. (Every class now has knockbacks, interrupts, AMS, Shadowmeld, mini-CCs, etc.)
The Clearcasting change is still very weird because it says ‘Casting an Arcane spell has an 8% chance to trigger,’ but it can’t trigger from Spellsteal, Polymorph, or Slow (+shimer?)… it only procs from damaging spells. But then why isn’t this mentioned in the description? In the past, we could get it based on mana spent, and because Spellsteal and Polymorph are pretty expensive spells, so they used to proc it often.